It's long time since I've heard someone at Adobe talking about it (maybe I've missed it). Adobe is moving fast forward (Creative Cloud, annual release cycles) and I'm afraid they may drop the whole project. It's on the Adobe Labs, by the way, and technologies in the Labs may be subject to sudden abandon.

We have now posted the first prerelease version of Configurator 3 on various Prerelease Programs including Photoshop, InDesign and CS Extension Builder. If you would like to be on the prerelease for Configurator 3 but do not have access to the prerelease programs mentioned please get in touch with me. We'd love to have you try it out!

As an officer in our local Photogtaphy club, It would greatly be appreciated if you could send me Configurator 3 for CS6. I am constantly submitting processed Photoshop photo's and configurator 3 would speed up the process.

I've been building panels for Photoshop using Configurator since version 1. I was wondering if I could get access to Configurator 3 to make sure a smooth upgrade will be present when my company upgrades to CS6 in a few weeks.

my machine was just built recently, all works well untill i export, when i choose the panels folder it gives message can not load to panels folder. Tried exporting to desktop, that worked , but when i try to move or copy to panels folder it says i dont have permission ( i checked and i am logged on as administator) tried to use adobe extention manager and cant get it to move to there either. i am using windows 7 64 bit intel 2600 processor, asus mother board .. dont know what else you need to know, thank you so much for trying to help

The main thing to make it work with Extension Manager in Windows 7 64-bit is to make sure you have Extension Manager running as administrator. I can do a quick overview of each step to make sure we're on the same track.

1. Open your panel in Configurator 2.0.

2. Go to "File -> Export Panel"

3. Export to your desktop

4. If there are no permission problems, you will see a "successfully exported" dialog box. Click OK

5. Right-click on your icon for Adobe Extension Manager, and choose "run as administrator". If you don't have a shortcut icon to Extension Manager, you can add one quickly to your desktop, just to make sure you can right-click it and choose "run as administrator"

7. Select the MXI file in your panel folder that was exported to your desktop

8. Save as a ZXP file in the same folder

9. If there are no permission problems, you will see a "successfully created" dialog box. Click OK

10. Still in Extension Manager, go to "File -> Install Extension"

11. Choose the ZXP file for your panel and select Open

12. If there are no permission problems, you will see a "successfully installed" dialog box. Click OK

13. Now you should see your panel listed in the extension manager list for Photoshop CS5. Make sure the "Enabled" checkbox next to your panel is checked

14. Open Photoshop and go to "Window -> Extensions". If everything was successful, you will see your panel listed in this submenu. Click on it to open your panel

If these steps don't solve your problems, let me know where the issue is appearing and I can try to help you out. My guess is that it would be related to your Windows 7 user account's permissions level.